These memory blips are very annoying. As I've said before I have a perfectly good explanation for them: When we reach a "certain" age there is so much -- shall we define it as knowledge -- stored in our heads that it's hard to find what we need at a moment's notice. It's kind of like a giant computer, if you will. Anyone who deals with a computer knows that it takes a while for said computer to sometimes spit out the information requested.

It's the same with our minds. We have to shuffle through everything until we get to the correct category. Then we have to shuffle through all the "stuff" in that category to get to the subject at hand.

Anyway, the guy who smells good (GWSG) and I were having a discussion the other day. It was shortly after I'd discovered the column which I began with: "The car manufacturers are missing a golden opportunity." I confessed I couldn't remember where I was headed with that one, and we began discussing drivers in general.

"How about those guys who run the red light?" GWSG questioned. It's still red on the other side for a few seconds, so they just drive right through, he said -- or something like that. Then added something like: "They just make everyone else wait while they break the law,"

I agreed and added my two cents. "Those are the same drivers," I suggested, "who think that the directional signal has some kind of magical powers. They want to get in your lane. No problem! Just flash that signal and squeeze in.

"If you don't let 'em you get that universal signal. I'm not sure," I said to GWSG, "but I think it's the signal for 'I love you.'"

We both shook our heads in disgust, smug in our own little worlds as to what astute drivers we both are and went our separate ways.

Meanwhile, I still have no clue as to what I was talking about regarding car manufacturers and golden opportunities.

Maybe some day the light will dawn. If it does you all be the first to know.